We're an ordinary family, complete with picky eaters, budget concerns, and time management issues. But to prove that "eating local" works - even for busy families in cooler climates - we're trading Chick-Fil-A and goldfish crackers for grassfed meat and local produce. Join our adventure in learning to eat (sort of) sustainably for the summer!

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Last week's shopping

Total for the week - $191, including school lunch stuff and some extra stuff we canned and froze

Two things I'm proud of this week that help offset the ghastly amount we spent on prepared food like quiche - the grapes and the tomatoes. The grapes I found at a roadside stand a few doors down from Fitch's Farm Market, and the guy was selling two-pound bags for a dollar a piece. Whoa - you can't even beat that at the grocery store for stuff that was shipped halfway across the world! And the tomatoes came from Miss Dorothy, the retired lady who has a farm stand along a busy road near our neighborhood. Her prices on produce are a little high, but it's really convenient, and she reminds me of my grandmother, so we try to throw some business her way. She's got VERY reasonable prices on what she considers "seconds," fruit and veggies that aren't up to her very high standards. We bought two of those two-quart produce boxes heaped full of somewhat cracked and spotted tomatoes for $5, and I spent all day Sunday canning them for this winter. I need to get some extra jars so I can do that again before she runs out of squishy-but-cheap fruit!